The reason why Netflix/Sony/WhatsApp are mentioned is not because they're best reasons to donate to FreeBSD but instead because there's much higher chance for t

The reason why Netflix/Sony/WhatsApp are mentioned is not because they're best reasons to donate to FreeBSD but instead because there's much higher chance for the reader to know them rather than DTrace, ZFS, Jails, performant TCP/IP stack and many other things where FreeBSD benefits the users. It's much simpler to get a connection this way and some interest from the end user, who otherwise wouldn't have heard about FreeBSD and wouldn't ever thought on donating the money to a project that he wouldn't have know is running so many things he enjoys and or relies on. We're aware everyone has limited funds and lots of people have better use for their resources than to donate, but this is exactly why we are asking kindly, we are not demanding nor trying to impose our point of view in such donation request and most importantly, we're not judging regardless of the donation decision :) We are grateful even for discussion such as this one, that may spread out the knowledge and familiarity of the FreeBSD project and in result perhaps drive even more donations or - better yet - new project members!